Barnet Kellman (Directing)
Little is known about Barnet Kellman, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Mr. Sunshine
Ben Donovan is a self-involved manager of a second-rate San Diego sports arena who begins to re-evaluate his life on his 40th birthday. Working alongside him is his boss and arena owner, Crystal--attractive, powerful and highly erratic; Alice--the cute, tomboyish marketing director and Ben's friend with benefits; Alonzo--a former basketball player, handsome and unbelievably happy; Ben's assistant, Heather--pretty, sweet, but terrifying because she once lit a boyfriend on fire; Crystal's son, Roman--sweet-faced, clueless and Ben's newest employee; and a hapless operations crew whom Ben refers to collectively as the "Steves."
Release Date: 2011-02-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 63
The Middle
The daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the city of Orson, Indiana.
Release Date: 2009-09-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 658
Accidentally on Purpose
A newspaper film critic, Billie is a single woman who finds herself "accidentally" pregnant after a one-night stand with a much younger guy, and decides to keep the baby... and the guy.
Release Date: 2009-09-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 38
Samantha Who?
Samantha Newly has been a bad, bad girl. But thanks to an 8-day coma, she can't remember a thing. Fortunately her best friend Andrea is by her side with a cocktail and the 4-1-1 on every dirty deed. But the more Sam pieces together her past, the less she likes her old self. Maybe this is a chance to start over and do it all again.
Release Date: 2007-10-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 75
Notes from the Underbelly
Notes from the Underbelly is an American sitcom that debuted on ABC as a midseason replacement. The series is based upon the novel of the same name by Risa Green, and is produced by Eric and Kim Tannenbaum for Warner Bros. Television. The title is a parody of Dostoevsky's novel Notes from Underground. Originally, it was supposed to debut on October 5, 2006, along with Big Day, but ABC made a last-minute change in its schedule by moving Ugly Betty to Thursday, thus replacing both sitcoms. After numerous scheduling changes prior to the shows premiere, the show premiered Thursday, April 12, 2007 at 10:00PM Eastern/9:00PM Central, and moved to its regular Wednesday timeslot at 8:30PM Eastern/7:30PM Central on April 18. Notes from the Underbelly began its second season on November 26, 2007 in the new timeslot of 9:30PM Eastern/8:30PM Central on Mondays, leading out of fall's second highest rated freshman sitcom, Samantha Who?. On May 13, 2008, ABC opted not to renew the series for a third season. In Russia, all 23 episodes of the series were shown on NTV.
Release Date: 2007-04-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 4
My Boys
My Boys follows PJ, a twenty-something professional sportswriter who is looking for love within her world which is dominated by her group of male friends. Her tomboyish, no-nonsense approach to relationships tends to freak out potential suitors which leads her only female friend to advise her to dress and act more feminine.
Release Date: 2006-11-28
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 9
Vote Count: 8
Four Kings
Barry, Ben, Jason, and Bobby—four lifelong friends who affectionately refer to themselves as the “Four Kings of New York”— find their bonds to one another tested when they all move into the apartment that Ben inherited from his grandmother.
Release Date: 2006-01-05
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 4
The Bad Girl's Guide
The Bad Girl's Guide is an American television program starring Jenny McCarthy, Marcelle Larice, Christina Moore, Stephanie Childers and Johnathan McClain. The series aired on UPN from May 24, 2005 to July 5, 2005. The TV show was based on the best-selling Bad Girls Guides by Cameron Tuttle, who was the show's co-creator and co-executive producer.
Release Date: 2005-05-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Living with Fran
Living With Fran is an American sitcom that debuted on The WB in April 2005 that starred Fran Drescher. The show last aired on March 24, 2006.
Release Date: 2005-04-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 10
Committed
Committed is a television sitcom that aired on NBC as a midseason replacement from January 4 to March 15, 2005. Although originally broadcast twice a week the series eventually settled in a regular timeslot on Tuesdays at 9:30PM EST after Scrubs. The show starred Josh Cooke and Jennifer Finnigan and costarred Darius McCrary, Tammy Lynn Michaels and Tom Poston. Cooke and Finnigan played two single and extremely eccentric New Yorkers who are subject to constant interference when they begin dating from their equally eccentric friends and Finnigan's roommate, known only as "Dying Clown" or "Clown" who was actually a clown, played by Tom Poston. The show ran for 13 episodes. Clips and fan-generated montages can still be found online, but no official DVDs have been produced.
Release Date: 2005-01-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 3
Center of the Universe
Center of the Universe is a television series on CBS, which ran from October 27, 2004, until January 19, 2005. The sitcom was canceled after just 10 episodes aired. It was set in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. John Goodman starred as John Barnett, a good-natured and successful operator of a security company. The series involved the dependency of his entire family on John for everything -- money, jobs, housing, and personal guidance in every decision. Tagline: "The world doesn't revolve around John...but his family does." A total of 15 episodes were produced.
Release Date: 2004-10-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
Listen Up!
Listen Up! is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from September 20, 2004 until April 25, 2005. The sitcom was based loosely on the life and exploits of the popular sportswriter and sports-media personality Tony Kornheiser. Its principal executive producer was Jason Alexander, who was also the lead actor. Despite decent-to-good ratings, the show was canceled by CBS on May 18, 2005; "rising production costs" was the major reason officially given for the cancellation.
Release Date: 2004-09-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 4
The Big House
The Big House is an American prime time television sitcom starring actor/comedian Kevin Hart. It ran on the ABC television network in April 2004, lasting for only six episodes. The series represents a mirror-opposite of the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Kevin Hart is a wealthy, pampered student from Malibu. After his father is arrested and imprisoned for embezzlement, Kevin moves to Philadelphia to live with his working-class aunt, uncle and cousins, and enrolls in Drexel University.
Release Date: 2004-04-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 2
It's All Relative
Bobby's a bartender and the only son of gregarious, salt-of-the-earth Irish Catholic parents from Boston. His fiancée, Liz, is a toney Harvard student and she's Protestant (no, that's not the problem). Liz has two dads, not one, and they're a worldly pair of well-heeled gay men.
Release Date: 2003-10-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 6
Like Family
Tanya, Ed, and their kids, 16-year-old Danika and 12-year-old Bobby, are a middle-class African-American family who open their door for an old friend who needs parenting help. Juggling the demands of single parenthood, Maddie believes her 16-year-old son, Keith, could benefit from living in a traditional family structure, and especially from a strong male influence. They discover that their differences are definitely more than skin deep.
Release Date: 2003-09-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 13
Vote Count: 4
Rock Me Baby
Rock Me Baby is an American television series set in Denver, Colorado. It is a comedy / drama that debuted on September 15, 2003 on UPN. Rock Me Baby stars actor and comedian Dan Cortese as Jimmy Cox, co-host of a popular Denver radio show with his best friend, Carl, played by Carl Anthony Payne II. Bianca Kajlich plays Beth Cox, Jimmy's wife, and the two have a baby named Otis. Tammy Townsend plays Beth's best friend, Pamela, who is obsessed with the glamorous life.
Release Date: 2003-09-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 5
8 Simple Rules
8 Simple Rules is an American sitcom television series originally starring John Ritter and Katey Sagal as middle-class parents Paul and Cate Hennessy, raising their three children. Kaley Cuoco, Amy Davidson and Martin Spanjers co-starred as their teenage kids: Bridget, Kerry and Rory Hennessy. The series ran on ABC from September 17, 2002, to April 15, 2005. The first season focused on Paul being left in charge of the children after Cate takes a full-time job as a nurse, with comedic emphasis on his often strict rules concerning his daughters and dating. The series' name and premise were derived from the book 8 Simple Rules by W. Bruce Cameron.
Release Date: 2002-09-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 175
Family Affair
A handsome and wealthy businessman, Bill Davis has a high-powered career, a stunning penthouse on Central Park East, a succession of beautiful women and a dignified old-school British butler, Mr. French, to make sure his life runs according to plan. Bill's life of blissful bachelorhood was years in the making, but it is destroyed in a single day with the arrival of two 6-year-old twins and their 14-year-old sister.
Release Date: 2002-09-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 2
Monk
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
Release Date: 2002-07-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1102
George Lopez
George raises daughter Carmen and dyslexic son Max with his wife Angie, after surviving a miserable, dysfunctional childhood at the hands of his neglectful alcoholic mother Benny.
Release Date: 2002-03-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 89
Bob Patterson
Bob Patterson is a popular self-help motivational speaker. What his adoring public doesn't know is Bob is an insecure husband and dad who often fails at basic human interactions.
Release Date: 2001-10-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 5
Vote Count: 4
Madigan Men
Madigan Men is an American television comedy that premiered on ABC in the U.S. on October 6, 2000. The show performed poorly in the ratings and among critics and was canceled on December 18, 2000.
Release Date: 2000-10-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 5
Mary and Rhoda
The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
Release Date: 2000-02-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Once and Again
The series depicts the family of a single mother and her romance with a single father.
Release Date: 1999-09-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 20
Felicity
Felicity Porter, a sensitive and intelligent girl from the San Francisco Bay Area, decides to give up a slot at Stanford University's pre-med program to follow her long time crush to college in New York City. Things get even more complicated when she meets her dorm's resident advisor and they fall in love.
Release Date: 1998-09-29
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 76
For Your Love
From commitment phobics to blissful newlyweds to wedlock veterans, For Your Love depicts love in all of its romantic, challenging and chaotically hilarious stages. This sophisticated romantic comedy series was created and is executive produced by Yvette Lee Bowser. Set in the suburb of Oak Park, Ill, the series follows couples bound by friendship and family as they traverse the many phases of life and love in all their glorious complications. At the start of the series, Sheri & Dean were the relationship "veterans," having been together for 15 years, married for the last four. Malena (Sheri's best friend) & Mel were newlyweds, moving next door to Sheri & Dean. Bobbi & Reggie (Mel's younger brother) were dating, two "commitment-phobes" who were more devoted to each other than either would readily admit.
Release Date: 1998-03-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 17
Vote Count: 1
Slappy and the Stinkers
Five 2nd-grade kids who don't follow strict rules by their school principal Brinway are dubbed "Stinkers" by him. On the class visit to an aquarium the Stinkers decide that a sea lion called Slappy doesn't feel too good there, "free" him, and plant him into Brinway's hot-tub.
Release Date: 1998-01-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 38
Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!
Release Date: 1997-09-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 317
Ink
Ink is a television sitcom which aired on CBS from 1996-1997 that starred real-life husband and wife Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen as newspaper journalists, allegedly inspired by the film His Girl Friday. The show was also produced by Danson and Steenburgen. The show was canceled after one season due to lower than expected ratings. The distribution rights to the series are currently owned by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. The show's pilot was drastically changed and reshot from the original version. Ink was filmed at the soundstages of CBS Studio City in the Studio City area of Los Angeles. Outdoor scenes were usually shot at the small backlot streets of the same studio.
Release Date: 1996-10-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
Suddenly Susan
Suddenly Susan is an American television sitcom. Shields plays Susan Keane, a glamorous San Francisco magazine writer who begins to adjust to being single, and who learns to be independent-minded, after being taken care of all her life.
Release Date: 1996-09-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 26
Life with Roger
Life with Roger is an American sitcom that aired on the WB as part of its 1996-97 schedule.
Release Date: 1996-09-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
If Not for You
If Not For You is an American sitcom television series that aired from September 18 until October 9, 1995.
Release Date: 1995-09-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Bless This House
Bless This House is an American CBS sitcom which starred Andrew Dice Clay and Cathy Moriarty.
Release Date: 1995-09-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 19
Hope and Gloria
Hope and Gloria is an American sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Television and aired on NBC from March 9, 1995, through June 22, 1996. The show was canceled after 35 episodes. It starred Cynthia Stevenson and Jessica Lundy, respectively, as the titular characters, both working in an office environment in downtown Pittsburgh. The program also starred Alan Thicke as a local talk show host and featured Enrico Colantoni in one of his first regular roles on television. The series was broadcast in Britain on ITV during the 1996 summer holiday, going out Monday to Friday for seven weeks.
Release Date: 1995-03-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
Something Wilder
Something Wilder is an American sitcom starring Gene Wilder that ran on NBC from October 1, 1994 until June 13, 1995. The series was created by Lee Kalcheim and Barnet Kellman.
Release Date: 1994-10-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 11
ER
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
Release Date: 1994-09-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 839
Thunder Alley
Thunder Alley is an American sitcom which aired from March 9, 1994 to July 4, 1995 on ABC.
Release Date: 1994-03-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
The Second Half
Short-lived American sitcom about a divorced sports columnist, dealing with his ex-wife and visiting two daughters.
Release Date: 1993-09-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Good Advice
Good Advice is an American situation comedy series that aired for two seasons on CBS from 1993 to 1994. It was co-created and executive produced by Danny Jacobson and Norma Safford Vela; and starred Shelley Long and Treat Williams. The Show was a hit, but it was cancelled because Long had suffered health problems that made her unable to film any new episodes for a long period of time.
Release Date: 1993-04-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Mad About You
Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.
Release Date: 1992-09-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 13
Vote Count: 223
Straight Talk
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth. Problem is, the more he is around her the more he fancies her.
Release Date: 1992-04-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: TV Director
Vote Count: 70
Murphy Brown
Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center. Over 40 and single, she is sharp tongued and hard as nails. In her profession, she is considered one of the boys, having shattered many glass ceilings encountered during her career. Dominating the FYI news magazine, she is portrayed as one of America's hardest-hitting (though not the warmest or more sympathetic) media personalities.
Release Date: 1988-11-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 76
Vote Count: 69
Just in Time
'Just in Time' aired as mid-season replacement in spring 1988 on ABC; the US sitcom centers around the editor and staff of the fictional magazine West Coast Review.
Release Date: 1988-04-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 1
My Sister Sam
My Sister Sam is an American situation comedy series that aired on CBS from October 1986 to April 1988. The series stars Pam Dawber and Rebecca Schaeffer.
Release Date: 1986-10-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 4
Designing Women
Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.
Release Date: 1986-09-29
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 30
Throb
Throb is an American television sitcom broadcast in syndication from 1986 to 1988, created by Fredi Towbin. It revolved around thirty-something divorcee Sandy Beatty who gets a job at a small New Wave record label, Throb. Beatty's boss is Zach Armstrong, who looks like Michael J. Fox but dresses like Don Johnson. Beatty also has a 12-year old son named Jeremy. Beatty's best friend was Meredith, a single teacher who lived in her building, and her co-workers included hip business manager Phil Gaines, and Prudence Anne Bartlett, nicknamed Blue. During the second season, Sandy moved from her original apartment to the recently vacated penthouse in her building. She took in her co-worker, Blue, to help with rent, but the differences between straitlaced Sandy and the very free-spirited Blue became more pronounced as they both lived and worked together. Notably, it was the first time much of the American TV audience saw Jane Leeves, who later gained fame as Daphne Moon on Frasier. Also notable is the casting of a young Paul Walker, who played Jeremy Beatty for the first season. Walker became a leading man in Hollywood some 15 years later, particularly after his breakthrough role in The Fast and the Furious.
Release Date: 1986-09-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 3
All is Forgiven
Paula Russell is the producer of a soap opera called All is Forgiven who just married a donut executive with a teenage daughter.
Release Date: 1986-03-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 2
Hometown
Hometown is an American dramedy series than ran on CBS from August 22 to October 15, 1985. The series was a direct adaptation of the smash hit 1983 movie The Big Chill, and centered around the same premise as the film: a group of friends all in their 30s, who had reunited after traveling separate paths following their college days in the 1960s. Upon their reunion, they found that they were even more so an integral part of each other's lives in the 1980s. Julie and Dinah Kirgo served as executive producers, with Barnet Kellman directing most of the episodes. Hometown was produced by Kingette Productions in association with Paramount Television.
Release Date: 1985-08-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Key Exchange
A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.
Release Date: 1985-08-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Gemini
Filmed version of the hit Broadway show with two of the original stars. Set in the backyard of a blue collar South Philadelphia neighborhood early in the summer of 1973, the comedy-drama focuses on the 21st birthday celebration of Harvard student Francis Geminiani. In attendance are his divorced blue collar father Fran and Fran's widowed girlfriend Lucille, next-door neighbor Bunny Weinberger and her overweight son Herschel, and Francis' classmates, the wealthy WASP Hastings siblings; Judith (who seeks romance with Francis) and Randy (the object of Francis' unexpressed affection), who have arrived unexpectedly, much to their friend's dismay. All are dysfunctional to varying degrees, and the interactions among them provide the play with its comic and dramatic moments.
Release Date: 1982-02-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Deal
Deal was a 2005 television pilot by Is or Isn't Productions as part of a two-year development deal for NBC. The comedy series was based on the life of Annie Duke, a professional poker player.
Department: Directing
Job: Director